March 7, 2008
Lawrence filmmakers (clockwise from top left) Amy McClung, Grace Waltz, Muriel Green, Misti Boland, Sara Huslig, Sandra Ristovska, Stacey Fox, Jennifer Hellwig, Rhonda LeValdo, and Kasey Babbitt.
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Screen Sisters
With Hollywood treading in its own testosterone, female filmmakers find redemption in indie film
Six percent of the 250 top-grossing movies in the United States last year were directed by women. This means 94 percent were directed by men. And yet women make up roughly 40 percent of the film students at KU, according to the Department of Theater and Film. So what happens to all of them? It's one of those problems that never seems to go away. This story, which is about women in film, and why so few of them occupy the most important roles behind the camera, could have been written 10, 20, 30 years ago and be virtually the same.
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